On This Day: First Lady Michelle Obama hugs a young girl during a “Get Out The Vote” rally at Canyon Springs High School in Las Vegas, Nev., Nov. 1, 2010 (Photo by Samantha Appleton)
01
Nov
15
102 Responses to “Chat Away”
Leave a Reply
White House.gov
- Why Diplomacy Matters: Follow Along as the President Heads to the 70th UN General Assembly
- The First Lady’s Travel Diary: Visiting Our Troops in Qatar
- Make an Impact: Become a White House Fellow
- The First Lady’s Travel Diary: Qatar and Jordan
- It's that time. Are you covered?
WH Tumblr
- Trick-or-treat!
- Happy Halloween! Watch President Obama and the First Lady...
- So what does the bipartisan budget agreement that Congress just...
- Democrats and Republicans came together this morning to pass a...
- “Who knew community policing could involve the Nae Nae?...
The People’s View
- Open thread - GOP/media industrial complex clown show Liberal Librarian
- With Success on Budget, Debt Ceiling, Climate Change, and Iran nukes, Obama is Winning Randy Abraham, Guest Blogger
- This is Why Hippies Deserve to be F-cking Punched Sometimes Spandan Chakrabarti
- A Black Lives Matter of Respect: Hillary vs. Bernie in Two Videos Spandan Chakrabarti
- The Context of President Obama's "American Boots" Remark and Congressional Culpability on Syria Spandan Chakrabarti
Smartypants
- Infantilizing the Electorate
- Have Trump's Numbers Been Overstated in the Polls?
- What is Your Story of America?
- Yes, We're Still a Nation of Cowards
- Some Straight Talk From FLOTUS
A Writing Corner (LL)
- #Pixels: A sign of the Apocalypse?
- Annals in “WTH Were You Thinking??” – Potty Training
- For the young lady and her love of Seamus Heaney
- On compassion
- A Mass for the Dead
Greg Sargent
- Happy Hour Roundup
- How badly has the Obama era damaged the Democratic party?
- Why marijuana legalization will still be a potent issue in 2016
- Morning Plum: A brutal reality check for the Democratic Party
- Happy Hour Roundup
Steve Benen
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
WH Flickr
|
See ya later!
Back after church
Thanks, Chips! Congrats to MP, almost first!
<3
Anybody else read this story?
Bogus tripe is indeed correct. …..
phuck outta here.
If he were able to run, Barack Obama would win a third term.
Totally!
pssst, TODobots! “Anyone” can be equal to /whisper/ the dog owner around here whose animal loves indestructible toys.
Oops, forgot to note this was the @Interior recap.
Off for lunch - bbl
November 01, 2015, 08:39 am
Ryan dismisses calls for family leave law
By Scott Wong
New Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday dismissed Democrats’ calls for a paid family leave law as another “federal entitlement,” and said his position isn’t at odds with recent remarks that he wants to spend weekends with his young family in Wisconsin.
“I don’t think people asked me to be Speaker so I can take more money from hard-working taxpayers, so I can create some new federal entitlement,” Ryan said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “But I think the public wants to have members of Congress that represent them, that are like them.
“Don’t you want your member of Congress to be a citizen legislator who lives with you, among you, who has your own kinds of concerns, who wants to spend time with his children on Saturdays and Sundays?”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/258773-ryan-dismisses-calls-for-family-leave-law
Hypocrite, thy name is Ryan.
Hi all. I’m racing off to do set up and decorating for our Salsa the Vote Event, which starts at 6:00 this evening. Clean up and take down won’t start until well after 8:00 tonight, so it’s going to be long day. Please send positive thoughts our way that we get a good turnout and some real enthusiasm for our candidates. We have terrific people running for office and they could all be winners if people would only turn out. Wish us luck!
Goes without saying! Would be curious to hear from these folks what their thoughts are on the Republican’s thoughts on immigrants…and immigration reform. Have fun!
wishing you great luck!
wishing you a huge turn out!
thanks a lot for what you do each and everyday and especially to prepare for events like these
Very much admire all your efforts to #GOTV Jackie!!!
#Hope4ALL
I love me some Paul Mooney.
In addition…the RNC canceled the next debate hosted by TELEMUNDO
And he’s still going to get a their votes.
I heard on NPR that Republican Hispanics told the RNC if they don’t stop this rhetoric in the primary “don’t look for their votes in the general elections”. Sounds like the GOP don’t care or won’t endorse Trump if he makes it that far.
Yeah..we’ll see. If you do that nasty thing “one more time” we’re not going to vote for you!! Ok, One more time! This time I’m REALLY mad! They need to just do it now…why they still have ANY SUPPORT after this hate speech by the entire party…is beyond me.
Will they be all over TV and at Trump’s rallies shouting at him like they do to PBO?
Nah - they only do that to people who support them
Happy Sunday TOD
Today is Italian Sunday in my home :)
Lasagna
Spaghetti and Meat sauce
Chicken Cacciatore
Garlic Sauteed Spinach
Garlic Bread
Apple Pie w/vanilla ice cream (not so Italian)
YUM! Makes me miss my Nana’s cooking for the family every Sunday:) All the family converged on my grandparent’s house for dinner…Italian grandmother = great cook!!
Now that right there is some good eating.
Apple Pie is VERY Italian!
It’s known as “Crostata di mele”
So change your menu to read “Crostata di mele con gelato alla vaniglia” and it will be authentically Italian :-)
Ya learn something new everyday! :lol:
Happy Sunday, TOD!
Inspired by VC ….
#Hope4ALL
bbl ……
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
The sad thing is that these guys show not an ounce of ‘growth’ over the past six years! It boggles my mind that as a group they are all so small-minded and determinedly mean - totally messes with my personal theory that there’s a bit of good in the worst of us.
Unfortunately VC (from personal experience) - certain individuals are evil to their core and prove it by their actions, daily.
Bofr, I’ve been discovering that during these years of watching the Republicans ‘up close’ - a disturbing, yet eye-opening experience. What generally leaves me with mouth hanging open (at least in the beginning) was that they perform with such seeming unawareness of the impact of their actions on peoples’ lives. smh
Hello TOD Community.
Happy Nov 1st 2015.
We have been outside mowing and wrecking balls :oops: Raking leaves ;) ……last day to drop off compost at the City Dump.
It’s hard to get all caught up.
Congrats to all the Gold :star: winners since last evening.
Great posts, Chips and Nerdy Wonka.
Thank you, TODers for all YOU Do ;)
The Reason Citizen United is an undemocratic Law. SCOTUS Failed!
Jan 21st, 2010. The Day, SCOTUS Killed Democracy.
dreck’s tweet.
The rt’s and fav’s of john oliver show there are many times sane people than the racist kkklowns.
Safe Negro who is welcome in the Master home because he says and do what the Master want him to, even speak ill of the other Negros who want their freedom.
Ben Carson speaks about slavery like it was something black Americans should be proud of.
I feel for those in Texas.
Later, TOD ;)
other updates in the sidebar …. bbl ….
Just wanted to thank those who voted dfor my grandson yesterday. He came in first by just a few votes, so you put him over the top. If he could type he would thank you himself, but it would probably come out ;lsdhlilnm qveg. pou; nhqe .,j E HSdgsknh
Congratulations to your grandson, John. If I did facebook I’d certainly have voted for him!!
Hope to visit TOD tomorrow … until then, take care everyone ….
#Hope4ALL
OUTSTANDING! Congrats to Japa21the3rd
Great news:)
Ah Japa, what truly lovely news, just thrilled!! Give that beautiful young man a monster enormous hug for us!!
That is great news, japa21!!!! It is exciting when we get to help.
He looked cuter than cute - if I knew how, I’d have joined facebook, just to vote for him
Puleeze
……………………..
Why Marco Rubio is so effective and dangerous
By Greg Sargent October 29
Marco Rubio bashed the mainstream media with great gusto last night, eliciting roars of approval from GOP voters. Amusingly enough, the emerging media consensus appears to be that his attacks on them were brilliantly executed, never mind that they were pressed into service to evade just the sort of legitimate questions the media has been pressing him upon.
But it’s worth drilling down on one key reason why Rubio is so effective and dangerous — to his GOP opponents, and potentially in a general election as well. It’s this: Rubio knows how to feed the angry preoccupations of many GOP base voters while simultaneously coming across as hopeful and optimistic.
The expectation going into last night’s debate was that a showdown was inevitable between Rubio and fellow Floridian Jeb Bush, who has to reassert his position as the dominant establishment alternative to Donald Trump (or, now, Ben Carson, though his rise seems likely to prove fleeting). This required putting Rubio, who is trying to usurp that role, in his place.
……………………………………
A lot of conservative primary voters may well hear such talk and conclude Jeb Bush is talking down to them — that he mostly has contempt for their preoccupations and fears. But Rubio has shown an ability to speak directly to those preoccupations and fears while simultaneously sounding the sort of hopeful, optimistic, forward-looking tone that fits comfortably with Jeb’s theory about the need to broaden the party’s demographic appeal.
This isn’t just because Rubio is young and Latino. His formula is a bit complicated. Last night, Rubio, in what appeared to be an appeal to the deep resentment of many of these voters, skillfully converted legitimate questions about his personal financial management into evidence of Democratic and elite media contempt for his relatively humble upbringing, which he proceeded to explain he had overcome through hard work. Rubio’s narrative is both laden with legitimate resentment and inspiring!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/29/why-marco-rubio-is-so-effective-and-dangerous/
6,000 prisoners are going to leave prison on an early release program brought to us by President Obama.
I watched CNN for the first time in months (years, maybe?) and won’t make that mistake again.
Poppy Harlow covered this story without mentioning The President once!!!! The release of people who were incarcerated for unjustly lengthy sentences was presented as a danger to the rest of us.
Instead of credit for a compassionate approach to our fellow humans, CNN gave us NYC Police Commissioner Bratton who concern trolled and the ex-prisoner Ben Kerik who wrung his hands and played on our fear and hate responses.
CNN is disgusting hate mongering filth.
Maybe we need to look at what is happening here and now in our sad country rather than on the ugly GOP spectacle.
by “we” I mean the media—not TOD
Ari Melber is tweeting that POTUS will be making significant criminal justice reform announcements tomorrow. I am eager to hear what our sensational President has to say.
Maybe CNN’s concern trolling is a pre-but.
Never fear, as soon as one of those released individuals does something, anything, that could fan the flames of outrage, President Obama’s name will be used repeatedly in every news story. Wearing decent clothes, when more worthy Americans go to thrift shops? Got a job that some more worthy American should have gotten? Didn’t get a job and was seen talking with a friend, when more worthy Americans are at work? Smiled while walking outside on a pleasant day? Whatever- all Obama’s fault.
He no longer cares about the dipsticks and the media susanne - doing the right thing is the 2nd term goal
He ran for President in 2008 & 2012 i thin, was front runner for 2 secs then settled on spokesman for reverse motgages. I liked him as an actor. He looked older than his actual age. Condolenses to family may he rest in peace.
PragmaticObotsUnite @PragObots
The #60minutes report on white heroine addicts paints them as victims to sympathize with. I doubt Blk heroine addicts wld get same treatment
Imperator Amazonia @Blackamazon
when it was crack cocaine and back folks it was criminal . You know how much of thriving working class black NYC got destroyed by crack?
“You know how much of thriving working class black NYC got destroyed by crack?”
YUP.
even spoiled brats behave better.
the bubble is getting smaller and smaller. or is it getting bigger and bigger to point of bursting?
Why are the GOP Clowns whining about the debates they agreed to do? The Democrats didn’t make the decision. They can’t handle the debates, they can’t handle tough questions being asked of them, how the hell will they deal with the tough job of being President. What a bunch of wimps they are acting like.
Go fedex. 7th basel title - 8-) rafa - :(
Yeah but, is it Basel or Basle?
you got this whole dogs are hunters meme totally wrong. give him a real live chicken, ferchrissake.
Best if it’s a noisy rooster from next door.
the rooster was just doing his job.
wimmin/smh
Oh, okay, I will go to farm in the morning, hunt down a chicken, take it alive, bring it home, and then watch as Danny goes ‘aaaaaaaaaah, save me!!!!’ :lol:
I toldja this would happen.
Oh crikey!! :lol:
see?
I said chicken, not chicken sausage.
Awwwww….he’s sulking…poor baby.
uh huh
uh huh
Joseph Gilbert @Jdgbert
@PragObots @nytpolitics - It’s been 3 days since Ryan said that I’ve heard nothing from immigration activists. #immigration
toddys and bt. every single effing day.
He puts down the weights, and he still can’t stand up without sweating.
Have you seen this? Look at racial injustice through the eyes of the victims. Interactive video. INTENSE!
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33473-why-tuition-free-college-makes-sense
Anything that makes sense and that comes from the black guy in the White House won’t get done.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/11/01/a-presidential-reminder/
Out of the goodness of their f’ing little lilly white hearts, they’re going to give Blacks Manhattan!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/white-supremacist-conference-proposes-whites-only-states-well-give-the-blacks-manhattan/
President .Obama maybe be the most admired man in the world, but there is no way Hillary Is the most admired woman. I am biased and I will admit it, but my choice for most admired woman is First Lady Michelle Obama. Hillary doesn’t even make the top five.
if I had any say in the way the DNC is running its campaign schedule, I would have jumped at the chance of gop’s refusal to debate on NBC and claimed the slot for my party and my candidates;